Spring-frame for packages



UNITED STATES HENRY OSGOOD, OF DOROHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPRING-FRAME FOR PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16,0 19, daied'November 4, 1856.

1""0 LZZ whom, t may concern,.-

Beit known that l, HENRY B. Oseoon, of Dorchester, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew article which promisesto be of real benefit to the public, and which Iterm the TransportatioirPro tec-tor.Z 7 It is designed to protect such things as are easily broken or damaged by being bruised during the process of transportation, storing, and handling, and more effectually than can be done by the ordinary means and with far less trouble.

The nature of my invention consists not in the discovery of any new principle, but in a new and heretofore unknown and unused combination of Well-known appliances for useful effects, among which are the transportation of food for human beings in an unbruised and wholesome state to markets.

The following is a full, clear, and exact description of my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon7 in which- Figure 1 is an isometric View ofthe protector. Fig. 2 is a perspective View, in which the reeeptacle is represented as a basket instead of a box, as shown in Fig. l.

In Fig. l, A is a box, or may be a basket or any other suitable receptacle, to contain the articles to be transported. Bis the protectorframe'. G are the elastic fastenings, by means ol' which theboxA is combined with the frame B, so that in whatever position they may beA within the protector-frame, the frame being made enough longer than the box or receptacle A to project on all sides, so as to receive whatever shock or jar there may be, and the elastic fastenings O, by which the box A is supported, prevent the shocks or jars being transmited to the box. These elastic fastenings may be of any of the well-known forms and materials. The form which I suppose will be most convenient and easily manufactured is to have the receptacle cubical, or nearly so, in form. y

If the load to be transported is very easily bruised, as strawberries, raspberries, and the like, where lower ones are liableto be crushed by the weight of those above, as seen in Fig. 3, they should be pu't in shallow boxes, which are made to t into the receptacle. These shallow boxes may be one, two, three, or four quarts each, or any other convenient size. When the receptacle is filled, the cover may be secured in any suitable way. When the load to be transported does not require the shallow boxes, the protector may be used without them.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The arrangement of the protectori'rame B in relation to the box or other receptacle, A, and its combination therewith by means of the elastic fastenings C, or their equivalent, substantially as vand for the purposes set forth.

HENRY B. OSGOOD.

Vitnesses:

JOEL GILEs, DAVID N. B. CoEEIN, J r. 

